Senior Director, Engineering, Latin America Design Center
Stanley Black & Decker · Ciudad Apodaca
Senior Director, Engineering – Latin America Design Center
The Company
It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Stanley Black & Decker is a global leader in tools, outdoor, and industrial solutions, with iconic brands including DEWALT®, STANLEY, CRAFTSMAN, and BLACK+DECKER®.
The Role
Stanley Black & Decker is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Mexico Design Center and serve as a key engineering leader supporting new product introduction, localization, value engineering, reliability, testing, and cross-functional execution for the Tools & Outdoor business. This leader will oversee engineering resources across three sites in Mexico and a fourth site in Texas, USA. The Director will be accountable for building an integrated multi-site engineering organization that supports both new product launches and the in-market health of the installed product portfolio. This role will partner closely with global design centers, operations, sourcing, quality, supply chain, and category teams to accelerate innovation, improve delivery performance, strengthen product quality, and drive cost and warranty improvement. The role requires a strong blend of technical depth, organizational leadership, and operational discipline.
This position is based in Monterrey, Mexico.
Primary Accountabilities
- Lead the Mexico Design Center engineering organization across multiple sites, including direct leadership of Product Lifecycle Engineering (PLE) leaders and their teams.
- Build vision, strategy, and action plan to expand design center to drive innovation and new product development.
- Create a cohesive operating model across NPI, sustaining engineering, reliability, testing, and value engineering to ensure alignment of priorities, resources, and execution.
- Drive new product introduction (NPI), localization, and lifecycle engineering initiatives in partnership with global engineering, category, and operations teams.
- Provide leadership oversight for teams responsible for maintaining existing products, resolving field and factory quality issues, and improving the long-term health of the portfolio.
- Ensure engineering deliverables meet requirements for quality, cost, timing, reliability, safety, and manufacturability.
- Oversee engineering support for builds, launch readiness, production ramp-up, and ongoing manufacturing stability across supported sites.
- Champion value improvement initiatives that reduce product cost, improve margins, and lower warranty claims through engineering-led problem solving.
- Strengthen reliability and testing capabilities, ensuring teams understand failure modes, validation methods, and corrective action processes.
- Partner with supply chain and sourcing teams to evaluate supplier changes, component improvements, and design modifications that improve quality, continuity, and cost performance.
- Establish governance, metrics, and review mechanisms to track engineering performance, portfolio health, execution risk, and organizational capability.
- Develop and retain top engineering talent, including succession planning and capability building for PLE leaders and broader site engineering teams.
- Serve as a key liaison between the Mexico Design Center and global stakeholders across engineering, product management, sourcing, quality, and manufacturing.
Professional Experience / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; mechanical, electrical, or related discipline preferred. Advanced degree is a plus.
- 15+ years of engineering and product development experience, including significant leadership responsibility in electromechanical or power tool environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading managers and multi-site engineering organizations.
- Strong background in new product introduction, sustaining/product lifecycle engineering, and cross-functional program execution.
- Solid understanding of design-for-manufacture, cost engineering, reliability, testing, and product lifecycle processes.
- Experience supporting factory operations, launch readiness, and resolution of field or production quality issues.
- Proven ability to lead in a fast-paced, matrixed, global environment.
- Bilingual English/Spanish required. Portuguese preferred.
Leadership Profile
- Hands-on leader with strong technical, people, and operational judgment.
- Able to lead through leaders, creating clarity, accountability, and alignment across multiple sites and teams.
- Skilled at balancing strategic priorities with day-to-day execution needs in launch and sustaining environments.
- Effective communicator across local and global teams, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Promotes ownership, transparency, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
- Committed to talent development and building a strong, high-performing engineering culture.
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We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.